Contested Boundaries: Itinerancy and the Reshaping of the Colonial American Religious World

Hall, Timothy D.

ISBN 10: 0822315114 / ISBN 13: 9780822315117

Verlag: Duke University Press Books, 1994

Beschreibung

[Interesting provenance: From the private library of renowned historian, Philip D. Morgan.] Hardcover. No dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. Remainder mark on bottom edge. Owner's name on front end page, else unmarked. "Contested Boundaries makes a telling and timely argument. It opens up rich new insights into eighteenth-century Protestantism and the changing colonial mindset in the face of escalating populations, increased multiculturalism, improved modes of travel, rising rates of literacy, strengthened transatlantic commerce, and the arduous, extended transition from subsistence to markets." - Peter H. Wood, Duke University From the professional library of Dr. Philip D. Morgan, a professor of History at Johns Hopkins University. Morgan specializes in the African-American experience, the history of slavery, the early Caribbean, and the study of the early Atlantic world. Morgan is the author of more than 14 books on Colonial America and African American history. He has won both the Bancroft Prize and the Frederick Douglass Prize for his book Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake and Lowcountry (1998).

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Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Contested Boundaries: Itinerancy and the Reshaping of the Colonial American Religious World
• Verlag: Duke University Press Books
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1994
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0822315114
• ISBN-13: 9780822315117
• Einband: Hardcover
• Zustand: Very Good
• Gewicht: 18 Unzen
• Verkäuferkataloge:
  • Colonial American History

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Inhaltsangabe

The First Great Awakening in eighteenth-century America challenged the institutional structures and raised the consciousness of colonial Americans. These revivals gave rise to the practice of itinerancy in which ministers and laypeople left their own communities to preach across the countryside. In Contested Boundaries, Timothy D. Hall argues that the Awakening was largely defined by the ensuing debate over itinerancy. Drawing on recent scholarship in cultural and social anthropology, cultural studies, and eighteenth-century religion, he reveals at the center of this debate the itinerant preacher as a catalyst for dramatic change in the religious practice and social order of the New World.
This book expands our understanding of evangelical itinerancy in the 1740s by viewing it within the context of Britain’s expanding commercial empire. As pro- and anti-revivalists tried to shape a burgeoning transatlantic consumer society, the itinerancy of the Great Awakening appears here as a forceful challenge to contemporary assumptions about the place of individuals within their social world and the role of educated leaders as regulators of communication, order, and change. The most celebrated of these itinerants was George Whitefield, an English minister who made unprecedented tours through the colonies. According to Hall, the activities of the itinerants, including Whitefield, encouraged in the colonists an openness beyond local boundaries to an expanding array of choices for belief and behavior in an increasingly mobile and pluralistic society. In the process, it forged a new model of the church and its social world.
As a response to and a source of dynamic social change, itinerancy in Hall’s powerful account provides a prism for viewing anew the worldly and otherworldly transformations of colonial society. Contested Boundaries will be of interest to students and scholars of colonial American history, religious studies, and cultural and social anthropology.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Timothy D. Hall is Assistant Professor of Early American History at Central Michigan University.